User:Armistral/The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times

The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times is a history of the vegetarian movement in Western/Eastern society system by Tristram Stuart.

From the book's Introduction:
 * "... In the era preceding the Industrial Revolution the question of meat-eating was one of the fiercest battle-fronts in the struggle to define humanity's proper relationship with nature. The vital question;"should humans be eating animals?' was a serious challenge to Western society's belief that the world and everything in it had been made exclusively for mankind."  Vegetarians called for a wholesale reappraisal of the human relationship with nature."


 * "... The argument that raged in the formative period between 1600 and 1830 helped to shape the values of modern society. Understanding the history of our ideas sets modern culture in a striking new light and can overturn our most entrenched assumptions. The early history of vegetarianism reveals how ancient ethics of abstinence, early medical science and Indian philosophy have influenced Western culture in profound and unexpected ways."

From the dust jacket:
 * "How Western Christianity and Eastern philosophy merged to spawn a political movement that had the prohibition of flesh at its core."